Intel Core i5-3337U vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i5-3337U vs Athlon II X3 425 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3337U is faster than the Athlon II X3 425. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 425 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-3337U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-3337U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3337U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-3337U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.